Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-15
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ShorD.-DOn QulXote.
Life is Il short day, but it is a work
ing day.-Hannah More.
Mrs. Langtry is exceptionally expert
with the foils an | loves the art.
We, too, are posterity, though mebby
we don't realize it rs we ort tO.-JOsiah
Aliens Wife.
The first sure symptom of Il mind in
health is rest Of heart and pleasure felt
at ho~me.-Young.
The main strength and force of law
consists in the penalty annexed to it.
Blackstone.
There are no greater prudes than
those women who have some secret to
hide.-George Sand.
The craze in New York for palmistry
looks as if the palmists were hand-in
glove with fashionable folk
1t must be n great relief to some
people to think that while christmas
is coming again, it is nearly n yer
off.
In San Francisco they no longer test
Il mans sobriety by asking him to say
Truly rural They try him on
''Chrysanthemum."
The Man With No Overcoat has lost
a pillar of his faith. Hannibal Hamlin
appears this winter full of strange pelts
and furred like a pard.
California was admitted into tne
Union September 10, 1850, thirty-six
years ago, and now its chief city, San
Francisco. has a list of l04 million
aires.
The golden beams of truth and the
silken cords of love, twisted together,
will draw men on with a sweet viO-
lence, whether they will or not.-Cud-
worth.
Young folks are apt to think old
folks ought to go a story higher. But
we're content, and they must put up
up with us until the proprietor orders a
move.-John Ruskin.
Cluverius, the condemned Virginia
liu lNtCi'CS u SiNht ~ ipi"i
gifts. One young woman recently sent
him a design which bore the words,
Heaven is thine
Does any man wound theep Not
only forgive, but work into thy thought
intelligence of the kind of pain, that
thou mayest never inflict it on another
spirit.-Margaret Fuller.
There are treasures laid up in the
heart, treasures of charity, piety, tenn
perance and soberness. These treas
ures II man takes with him beyond
death when he leaves this world
Buddhist Scripture.
We cannot suppose that Il period OF
time will ever arrive when the world,
or any considerable portion of it, shall
have come up abreast with these great
minds, SO as TO fully comprehend them.
-Longfellow.
PA" said Johnny, looking up from
his book. '.what does it mean to pile
Ossa on Pclionp" There, don't bother
me now" replied pa; 'ask your ma;
she understands all about millinery"
Boston Transcript.
People that never had any wits to
spare themselves always are ready to
egg On and chucklc when they see a
better fellow going a bit astray. Every
cur runs after and banks when a noble
blooded mastiff gets a tin can tied to
his tail.-Mrs. Whitney.
Ex-Empress Eugene, during her re-
cent journey through France and Italy,
refused to see any member of the Bona
parte family. Her majesty wears deep
mourning, and though her hat is of the
latest Partisan style, il is covered with
Grape.
The first step in debt is like the first
step in falsehood, almost involving the
necessity of proceeding in the slime
course, debt following debt rs lie fol-
lows lie. Hayden, the painter, dated
his decline from the day on which he
first borrowed money.--Samuel Smiles
A German man of science has taken
four heads of hair of equal weight, and
her proceeded to count the individual
hairs. One was oil the red variety, and
it was found to contain sc, hairs.
Next m the black with 103, 900
hairs to its credit. The brown has
100, 900, and the blonde lao, 900. The
blonde wins.
Mary Anderson, the actress, shone in
a new light the other day. The boat
that was to take her from Boulogne to
Folkstone started while she was in the
buffet. Mary got aboard only by a re-
markable steeple-chase leap, which is
said to nave caused every young Eng
lishman on the boat to repeat by
Jawve!" at regular intervals during
the passage.
Sounds and Echoes.